THE "SERVANTS" QUESTION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13509, 26 August 1907, Page 7

THE "SERVANTS" QUESTION.

(To th©*- Editor.) v Sir, — Kindly alloAV me a little space in your paper for these few lines. One afternoon, a few women were having afternoon tea in one of the tea-rooms, and of course it was the same old cry of that class of people. One person started to talk about "my^ervant and so-and-so." This started the lot of them going at the rate of fifty to the dozen. But little did these same people know the reason why "Bridget" and /'Mary Jane" gave notice to leave their situations. 'Now, one need, not ask any.qi^ostions, because the servants in our days are just as good as their masters or mistresses. For, a, fact, I 'know lots of people keep generals and lady helps, and really do not know how to treat their own class of people. Could you not wonder why girls go to factories and others do office work and do the young men out of their work ? Well, the earnest truth — a girl knows where she is' best treated and' never h,ears her name mentioned by a lot of talkers in such as tea-rooms and private houses. One thing I am proud to say/ that a real lady never talks about her servant, but she really knows how to treat her and s^eak when: She has got a house full of visitors. It is only these what one would call "upjumped" people that really do not know how to pay their way in the world, cannot keep a servant, and always wonder the reason why. — I am, etc., GENERAL SERVANT, ' New Plymouth. August 24th, 1907.